This is a good improvement. I have never used -mean-
in earnest. No doubt I should read up about it!
-tempname b- is now redundant.
Nick
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Maarten buis
> --- Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Something more like this may be closer
> > to what you want. Not tested. Very
> > probably can be improved.
> >
> > tempname b
> > postfile asa_esttab v1 v2 using asa_esttab, every(1) replace
> >
> > foreach x in pint pncmp pact {
> > mean `x' if (country==6)
> > mat `b' = e(b)
> > local x6 = `b'[1,1]
> > mean `x' if (country==11) [pweight=pscore]
> > mat `b' = e(b)
> > local x11 = `b'[1,1]
> > post asa_esttab (`x6') (`x11')
> > }
> >
> > postclose asa_esttab
>
> One way to simplify this code is to bypass the matrix
> commands. Instead
> of first making a matrix containing the verctor of coefficients and
> than extracting the number, you can directly get to a number in the
> coefficient vector with -_b[variable name]-:
>
> tempname b
> postfile asa_esttab v1 v2 using asa_esttab, every(1) replace
>
> foreach x in pint pncmp pact {
> mean `x' if (country==6)
> local x6 = _b[`x']
> mean `x' if (country==11) [pweight=pscore]
> local x11 = _b[`x']
> post asa_esttab (`x6') (`x11')
> }
>
> postclose asa_esttab
>
> tempname b
> postfile asa_esttab v1 v2 using asa_esttab, every(1) replace
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